(courtesy First Showing)
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A “mystery-of-the-week” series streaming on Peacock. Charlie has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. Season 2 takes Natasha Lyonne as Charlie’s existential road trip to new heights, tracking lies and solving crimes in the most unexpected places – from a minor league baseball field to an alligator farm to a grade school talent show. Poker Face is a whodunit series created by beloved filmmaker Rian Johnson (of Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, Knives Out, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery). It’s written by Johnson in collaboration with Lyonne. Showrun by Tony Tost. With additional writing by Wyatt Cain, Alice Ju, Laura Deeley, Megan Amram, Raphie Cantor, Tea Ho, Taofik Kolade, Andrew Sodroski, Kate Thulin, and Tony Tost. With more eps directed by Natasha Lyonne this season. Executive produced by Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman, Natasha Lyonne, Nena Rodrigue, Nora Zuckerman, Lilla Zuckerman, Tony Tost. (courtesy First Showing)
Mystery of the week shows generally leave me cold – they’re far too formulaic and lacking in an adventurous premise and while they provide a certain viewing comfort, there’s a sense of just treading water storywise.
Not so with Poker Face, a sublimely clever and funny series that subverts the predictability of the genre and which, thanks to the combined superlative talents of Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne and some inspired writing, goes into some very cool and daring places while retaining a heartfelt sense of raw humanity.
That’s like all the things you could ever want in a series in one highly watchable package and yes, we will watching eagerly when Poker Face S2 premieres on 8 May on Peacock in U.S. and in Australia on Stan with the first three episodes and the remainder of the full slate of 12 episode released weekly thereafter.